500S + Motorised Dish Prob.

[seoirse]

Hi guys.
We had a few issues with installing our 88cm dish with 1.2 motor. We set parameters for our location in Dublin... 53.3 North and 6.330 West (I think).

Anyway, placed dish as we thought at due south, but couldnt get signal from thor. We were getting the dish to move when we changed satellite. However, when we though it 3was movin to 28.2, we motor went to centre or 0. So something is up.

So we manually moved and focused dish on channels on 28.2 and were locked it in, with motor physically switched to 28.2. w3e received tv. However, we tried to move backwards as a point of reference, so when satellite, the moving motor seems to stop at the wrong location. foed snyone have any suggestions.

We,ve followed the sticky guide to install this dish.

Any ideas?

[Fano]

I had the same problem myself last week.
Its Usals,it doesnt work properly on the 500s.
I was confident my physical setup was correct.
I deduced it must have been a software prob.
I was using Usals setup and had entered my exact location correctly.
Could only pick up 2 bloody satellites,5w and 8w.
Decided I'd turn off usals and do it the manual way.
Started at 8w,then moved east until I hit 5w.
Then went to 13E and moved the dish slightly east in steps .
Hit 13e,16e,19e and 28.2.
I have about 20 sats tuned in now,all good signal.
I spent ages trying to get Usals to work but it was useless.
This is what I did to get it to work

The DM500s doesn't support gotoXX. The long way is to use stored positions is described below.

Please note that your zero satellite (1W in this example) will depend on where you are in the world.

Go to Menu > service searching > motor setup

Mode: drive to zero

and press go

Then change the mode to position and select 1W:

Satellite: 1W
Drive the motor to zero.

Mode: Position
Satellite: 1W

then use the < > arrows to move the dish until you get a lock. STORE the position (I use the same number as the satellite).

Then SEARCH.

Repeat for 13E, 19E, 28E, storing the position for each.

If you use gotoXX you shouldn't have to do it but I couldn't get it to work with my 7020 (and it doesn't work at all with a 500s).

Your screens and options may vary slightly depending on the Dreambox model and image that you have.


Extra info:

Mode is position, drive to zero and a few options.

SATELLITE has the list of satellites.

In simple terms you drive the motor back to zero so you have a fixed position.

Then you change the MODE back to position, select the satellite from the list next to SATELLITE.

Then you move the motor (dish) using the < > arrows (these move the dish east and west).

When you get a lock on the satellite you chose, you store it's position and then go to the next menu screen and scan it.

[seoirse]

Thanks for the info.

Will try that later on over the weekend.